I’m starting to think it’s this: People with little-to-no engineering experience want a full-time engineer for $20 a month. This does not apply to everyone in this sub, but for some of the people who do a lot of complaining about hitting their usage limits within minutes… Are you guys just selecting Opus High for every single task? Are you thinking through your prompt and usage before you start? Are you doing a bunch of follow-up questions on each task, leading to wasted input context tokens? Maybe you need to look at managing usage as a skill and maybe you need to get a little bit better at it. I’m not even trying to be on the side of the corporation here. I think it’s just that I get frustrated after seeing post after post after post constantly complaining about the same thing. And I was on everyone’s side for a while, but it’s to the point where I can’t even enjoy seeing news or excitement about a product, that is really enjoyable and helpful, because it’s just the same complaint over and over again. We all knew that things were subsidized in the beginning and eventually things we’re gonna have to adjust. and I think what happened was that when they first started introducing agentic coding, they basically handed everyone a $20 per month full-time full stack engineer and everyone got used to that. I’m not trying to be against you, and I didn’t even wanna post this. I just think some people need a little bit of a reality check. You were getting hundreds, if not, thousands of dollars of value for $20 or $100 a month for a while. That just wasn’t going to last forever. So you have 2 options I think. Learn to maximize your efficiency of token usage. Learn the nuances of each model. Learn when to use each model, when to delegate to certain agents, how to plan properly… basically learn how to Engineer working with AI agents. Just keep complaining while things only continue in this direction submitted by /u/1infiniteLoop4
Originally posted by u/1infiniteLoop4 on r/ClaudeCode